Passage

Пассаж

Passage is a commercial and residential building in Kyiv in the form of a street-corridor formed by two parallel buildings (the current address is Khreshchatyk Street, 15). At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Stifner estate, located on the site of the current Passage, was purchased by the Rossiya Insurance Company for … Read more

Chocolate House (Mogilevtsev’s mansion)

Шоколадный домик (особняк Могилевцева)

The Chocolate House (the dark brick-red color in which the walls are plastered became the basis for its name) is the unofficial name of the mansion of Semyon Mogilevtsev (Russian timber merchant) in which famous figures of science, socio-political and government life subsequently lived. Built in 1899-1901, next to Ikskyul-Gildenbanda House. In 1934, part of … Read more